Scripts

in Firefly: The Official Companion – Volume 1 (Titan Books, 2006) by Joss Whedon; scripts include almost all of the original English and the Chinese, but not in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or Chinese characters

in Firefly: The Official Companion – Volume 2 (Titan Books, 2007) by Joss Whedon; scripts include almost all of the original English and the Chinese, but not in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or Chinese characters

in Serenity: The Official Visual Companion – With an Introduction and the Motion Picture Screenplay by Joss Whedon (Titan Books, 2005); script includes almost all of the original English and the Chinese, but not in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or Chinese characters

From what was wrong with the pilot to what was right with the Reavers, from the use of Chinese to how correspondence between Joss and network executives might have gone, from a philosopher’s perspective on “Objects in Space” to a sex therapist’s analysis of Inara, Finding Serenity is filled with writing as exciting, funny and enthralling as the show itself.

by Rick Harbaugh; image-based; search by English, Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables or words), character radical/strokes, or character total strokes; links to Cantonese and Japanese single-character pronunciations

text-based; search by Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables or words) or characters; also Cantonese and other Chinese single-character pronunciations; sound files; animation of how to write individual simplified characters; also the affiliated Longwiki for searching for single characters by radical/strokes

Lessons

has a “How to Speak Chinese” segment on Mandarin phrases from Firefly–Serenity in the podcast’s season 1 and season 7 onward, and the site has a Chinese page with some Mandarin phrases with pinyin, Chinese characters, and sound files by Xiao Ka